As of Tuesday, mayor Peter Kelly has still not completed his duties as executor of the estate of Mary Thibeault.
As The Coast revealed in an exclusive report earlier this year—see “Peter Kelly’s Failure of Will,” March 24—the 91-year-old Thibeault died in her St. Petersburg, Florida home on December 7, 2004. A former Bedford resident, Thibeault had named “my friend Peter Kelly” as executor to her estate, then valued at about a half million dollars. Kelly was also one of 18 heirs, and would himself receive about $25,000 from the estate. Most of the other heirs are elderly.
After being appointed executor of Thibeault’s estate on March 24, 2005, Kelly repeatedly missed legal deadlines, ignored letters from the court urging him to file paperwork, neglected to advertise the estate settlement in the *Royal Gazette* as required and otherwise failed in his duties as executor.
Just before The Coast broke the story in March, Kelly obtained the services of a lawyer who exchanged some paperwork with the court. The most recent document in the file is a March 25 letter to the lawyer confirming that there are no claims against the estate. The file now appears moribund, and none of the voluminous accounting that accompanies settlement of an estate has been produced. As of this writing, a probate settlement that should take 18 months has dragged on for six years and seven months.
You can read the entire court file for yourself, here. I apologize that the slideshow isn’t in perfect chronological order, but most every document is dated.
This article appears in Oct 20-26, 2011.
Not saying it’s true, but it sure looks like the Mayor is waiting for some other beneficiaries to kick the bucket so he can cash in. If that’s not the case, he better pipe up with a better excuse quick.
What a sleazy, sleazy thing to do. Disgusting is too mild a word for Kelly’s actions. I hope he ends up as a defendant in court over this.
It certainly make him look untrustworthy and shady. At least he’s showing his true colours to his traditionally elder base…
This is incredibly sleazy. He is always going to all the teas because he knows that the elderly vote.
I think this shows he doesn’t really have any respect for them other than a vehicle to stay in the Mayor’s chair.
What type of person does this sort of thing? There are no words.
This whole story just sets my teeth on edge. So either our esteemed mayor is incredibly slimy and playing the waiting-for-the-grim-reaper game, or he is simply too lazy to be trusted with such a task. Either way, it doesn’t speak well for him.
Welcome Johnny and Josephine Come Latelies to the wonderful world of Peter Kelly and his nefariosity…..
I was a one time supporter of our mayor, who for the most part I thought was trying to do the right thing(s). But as I have watched this story unfold over the past few years, as well as witnessing some truly pathetic actions he has taken on behalf of HRM taxpayers, it has become increasingly evident to me that this is a man who is way out of his depth.
Bottom line, he has to go…
The court shouldn’t be allowing him to get away with missing deadlines and failing to submit paperwork.